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APES CHAPTERS 8,9,and 23 What is going to be on the test?

• Same as before there will be multiple choice and a free-response questions (won't be timed this time) - Schosek
• exponential and logistic growth
• carrying capacity
• density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors
• questions about population growth and decline
• intrinsic rate of increase of a population - identify the differences between the two reproductive strategies
• human's manipulation of carrying capacity
• population change curves
• r-strategists and k-strategists
  • know characteristics of each type of strategist

POSSIBLE ESSAYS:

• humans and earth's carrying capacity
• hunting and population control
• species restoration - wolves in yellowstone
• populations and disease

DEFINITE ESSAY: Urban Expansion

1. Temperature v. Rural
2. 2 differences which make the temperature different.
3. Characteristic of Urban Area that contributes to air pollution & how
4. ID & describe 2 actions urban planners can do to lower air pollution
5. ID & describe 2 ways local "water" cycle is different in urban areas than surrounding rural areas.

Key Terms:

• Pre-industrial
• Transitional
• Industrial
• Post Industrial
• K&R strategists
• Demographics
• Doubling Time
• Annual Percent Growth Rate
• Keynote Species